20.20 - MEDIATION.
20.20 MEDIATION.
In the absence of an impasse agreement negotiated pursuant to
section 20.19 or the failure of either party to utilize its
procedures, one hundred twenty days prior to the certified budget
submission date, or one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the
year when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective
if public employees represented by the employee organization are
teachers licensed under chapter 272 and the public employer is a
school district or area education agency, the board shall, upon the
request of either party, appoint an impartial and disinterested
person to act as mediator. If the public employer is a community
college, and in the absence of an impasse agreement negotiated
pursuant to section 20.19 or the failure of either party to utilize
its procedures, one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the year
when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective, the
board, upon the request of either party, shall appoint an impartial
and disinterested person to act as mediator. It shall be the
function of the mediator to bring the parties together to effectuate
a settlement of the dispute, but the mediator may not compel the
parties to agree. Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 20.20] Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 174, § 5; 92 Acts, ch 1011, § 3; 92 Acts, ch 1227, §
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Referred to in § 20.19